Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1887-09-02
Prohibition Stale COnVentiOn.--
The Platform Adopted.

L ne Plat1Orm AQOpleQ.
! From Harrisburg Telegraph of Aug. 25.l
Chairman Stevens, of the Commit.
tee on Resolutions, reported the fol.
lowing platform
THE PLATFORM.
l. We acknowledge the Almighty
God as the source of all power, and
with His assistance in conformity
with the Divine law we will labor on
in the struggle for the determination
of the drink traffic.
2. We declare that no political and
preventabls evil or combination OF
evil so clogs the progress of good, so
burdens industry and trade, so cor
rupts politics and legislation, so en-
dangers life, liberty and prosperity,
so threatens the perpetuity of free in
stitutions, as the liquor traffic. No
political issue is SO important as is
the suppression of the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating beverages,
and we demand the prohibition of the
same by statutory and constitutional
enactment, faithfully enforced. as the
only corrective agency for the evils
arising therefrom.
3. We declare that during the past
year the current of party declarations
and actions gives no promise that
either the Republican or Democratic
party will make the legal prohibition
of the drink traffic the object of party
support, and that therefore the citi.
zen who desires prohibition and relief
from responsibility for and completely
with the drink trade. can find it only
by casting his vote with the Prohibi-
tion party, the only party that dares
meet the saloon power at the ballot
box
A. We denounce the hypocrisy of
! the Repu blican party in pretending
TO favor the prohibition of the drink
traffic by the passage of resolution
for the submission of a constitutional
amendment prohibiting the manufac-
ture and sale Of Intoxicating liquor,
and then nullifying the same law by
the passage of high license law,
with the approval, as we believe, of
the liquor interest of the State, in and
by which they seek by division of
the license fees to make the citizens
of the Commonwealth in every coun-
ty, city and borough partners in the
profits of the liquor traffic, and there
by secure the defeat of the amend
ment if finally submitted to a vote OF
the people.
5. We declare the action of the late
Legislature in refusing to prohibit
the sale of Intoxicating liquors on
Memorial Day, and in the enactment
of the present "high license law" as
satisfactory evidence of the completely
of the Republican and Democratic
parties with their subsection to the
saloon power.
6. We favor protection to Ameri-
can labor and capital; the restriction
of immigration as against pauper and
criminal classes; the reservation of
our public lands for actual settlers;
popular education with the retention
of the Bible in our public schools;
just pensions to our dependent SOL
diers or their families; civil service
based on personal character and Off
cial fitness, and wise and economi-
cal administration of public affairs.
7. Custom duties should be so lev
led as to protect, promote and extend
American labor. wherever and when
ever foreign labor and capital shall
compete.
g. We demand system of taxation
which shall bear equally upon every
species of taxable property, and upon
all taxable persons and corporations
alike.
8. We favor just system of arbi-
tration for the settlement of differ
ences between heighbor and neighbor,
employer and employe, as well as for
the settlement Of international difficult
ties.
TO- The earnest energetic labors of
the women of the State for the pro-
motion Of temperance merits our
gratitude; viewing with alarm the
ship loads of ignorant and vicious
men who are annually brought to this
country, and who, soon becoming
voters, control our large cities, endan-
geriDg life, property and our civil and
religious institutions, we shall hail
with satisfaction the day when the in
telligence and virtue of American
women. our only political counter
poise to this ignorance, shall be cloth
ed with legal power, their rightful
due, to practically and efficiently de-
fend "home and native land" with
their ballots.
H. We declare that Pennsylvania
is Christian Commonwealth; was
founded to promote civil and religious
liberty; that our fathers ackno wledged
the God Of the Bible as their God and
the Supreme Ruler, and the Bible as
containing his code of laws. The re-
ligion of the Bible was their religion,
and continued TO be the religion of
our people, and they have the right
to expect and demand from their SER
wants in the Legislature and execu-
tive power such laws as will protect
them in the full enjoyment Of life and
property and in their religious con-
victions and observances, not conflict
ing with the personal liberty and
equal rights Of others. And we fur
ther declare that the quiet enjoyment
of the Sunday Of our fathers, with its
instruction and influences so promo
tive Of public good, is an inheritance
which must be defended against all
secular employments, and all attempts
of men to treat it "as any other day"
whatsoever may be the plea or pre-
text
u. That we declare in favor OF
laws against discrimination by cor
porations, and arraign the Republican
and Democratic parties for the hostil-
ity TO and defeat of anti discrimination
measures proposed at the last session
of the Legislature for the defense of
the weak against the strong.
49, We also arraign the Republican
party for the mysterious defeat Of the
State revenue bill, by means whereof
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